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A developer wants to reinvent Brooklyn's defunct Domino Sugar refinery and make it a housing and retail development. The project -- estimated to cost more than $1 billion -- would preserve the main refinery building and include four towers. "We're taking this narrow, vacant industrial site and turning it into an incredibly powerful economic engine for the neighborhood," said the developer, Michael Lappin, president of the Community Preservation Corp. Some are opposed to the project, citing "overdevelopment in our neighborhood."

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A developer's $1.4 billion plan to transform Brooklyn's Domino Sugar refinery into residences and office and retail space has won support from the New York City Council, with two changes. The council has required that the developer reduce the two apartment towers' height from 40 to 36 floors, provide shuttle service to the subway and pay prevailing wages.

William Rapetti, the rigger of the crane that collapsed in New York City in 2008 and killed seven people, is on trial this week. Rapetti's lawyer says the error that caused the collapse was made by the developer, who dug a hole that prevented the crane from being bolted to the ground. The 200-foot-tall, 150-ton crane was at work on a condominium project near the United Nations building in Midtown when it collapsed.

A developer wants to reinvent Brooklyn's defunct Domino Sugar refinery and make it a housing and retail development. The project -- estimated to cost more than $1 billion -- would preserve the main refinery building and include four towers. "We're taking this narrow, vacant industrial site and turning it into an incredibly powerful economic engine for the neighborhood," said the developer, Michael Lappin, president of the Community Preservation Corp. Some are opposed to the project, citing "overdevelopment in our neighborhood."

Wood is making a comeback in the Canadian construction sector, with developers using timber to build schools, sports facilities and even aircraft hangars. Architects say that timber is an eco-friendly alternative to concrete and steel, since it requires relatively little energy to produce and locks away the carbon absorbed by the trees for the building's entire lifetime.

Seattle is gearing up to drill the world's widest bored tunnel: a 1.7-mile, 13-month mission to cut through varying soils, boulders and groundwater. The boring machine that will cut the Highway 99 tunnel is 56 feet across and is expected to cost between $60 million and $80 million.